31, Steeles Road

31 Steeles Road is a detached house built in 1874 by JM Brydon, who lived there briefly. The building features red stock brick with tiled roofs and dormers, and its windows have been altered, particularly the front bay.

The house is two storeys high with an attic and semi-basement, displaying an asymmetrical and picturesque design. To the left, there is a single-storey bay with two windows, featuring gauged brick flat arches over slightly recessed narrow sashes with exposed boxes. It has a tall hipped roof. Next to this bay is a projecting brick porch supported by pilasters and a cornice, topped with a brick pedimented parapet that displays a terracotta plaque with sunflowers in a vase, dated 1874. The entrance features a part-glazed panelled door approached by steps.

Behind the recessed bay, there is a single sash window with exposed boxing and a shaped brick gable that ends in a segmental pediment. The main bay on the right has bowed bay windows with five lights that rise from the basement, along with a small window with an apron on the ground floor and a narrow sash window on the first floor. The house has a deep, stuccoed, coved eaves cornice and a pyramidal roof topped with a ball finial. There is also a two-light dormer with a segmental pediment that contains a plaster Classical head in a wreath. Two very tall brick chimney-stacks of slightly differing heights can be seen on the left side of the roof.

The interior has not been inspected.